Then, drawing on his skills as a professor of ... of the "objective" lens—the convex lens at the far end of the telescope—Galileo ground a lens larger than he needed, for example.

With his telescope, he observed that the Moon has ... that he had learned years before,” says Reeves. For Galileo, “drawing was a means of discovery, a form of thinking.” ...

Not Galileo. Who first pointed it at ... is generally given credit for reporting the first telescope observations of the moon. His first drawings, complete with craters and renditions of the ...

Galileo could draw and paint as well as many of his countrymen and was a master of perspective—a skill that no doubt helped him interpret the sights revealed by his telescope. His drawings of ...

The five etchings in "Sidereus Nuncius" are based on the drawings Galileo made while looking through the telescope. [ Chorale joins ] -You're brought close to being in the print shop where Galileo ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

or Academy of Drawing Arts, and went on to apply them in illustrations of the moons, sunspots and other celestial phenomena he witnessed through his telescope. As German art historian Horst Bredekamp ...

He mentally envisioned the first refracting telescopes without ever doing anything about them. You know — he was a busy guy. Galileo’s thoughts on optics, however, led to world-changing events ...

Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly ...